Sara Goldman’s father is an architect who has always nurtured her imagination and artistic aspirations. By the middle of seventh grade, she has already declared to her friend Willie Jensen: “I don’t have a choice. I have to be an artist.” If only the rest of Sara’s life was that simple and clear. It’s hard enough being the weird girl who is always drawing and making art instead of being interested in perfect hair and chic clothes like the other girls at her school, but now, at home, Sara has begun to wonder if the intriguing tales her father tells her about his past and the war are real or not. Inside those stories lies the inspiration for many of Sara’s works of art. She needs to hear them, wants to believe in them. But as the ghosts from the stories pull her father more and more frequently into a terrifying past, her mother forbids her to listen to the tales. Afraid that she will lose her father altogether, Sara begins to sort through his childhood, and discovers that truth quite literally has more than one face.”
Waiting For Eugene
Sara Goldman’s father is an architect who has always nurtured her imagination and artistic aspirations. By the middle of seventh grade, she has already declared to her friend Willie Jensen: “I don’t have a choice. I have to be an artist.” If only the rest of Sara’s life was that simple and clear. It’s hard enough being the weird girl who is always drawing and making art instead of being interested in perfect hair and chic clothes like the other girls at her school, but now, at home, Sara has begun to wonder if the intriguing tales her father tells her about his past and the war are real or not. Inside those stories lies the inspiration for many of Sara’s works of art. She needs to hear them, wants to believe in them. But as the ghosts from the stories pull her father more and more frequently into a terrifying past, her mother forbids her to listen to the tales. Afraid that she will lose her father altogether, Sara begins to sort through his childhood, and discovers that truth quite literally has more than one face.”